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Tapasya of Love — from human love to divine Love

Dr. Monica Gulati

Abstract
For those of us who have loved, or even tried to, know the obstacles that come on the way
from within the being or expecting, demanding, controlling, in the name of love. And yet, we
all start from there, but have also the potential to refine and purify our love to a more self-
forgetful, self-offering kind of love, full of warmth, humility, wisdom and compassion. This
article explores our starting-point of human love, a mixture of expectations and demands as a
step towards getting closer to our true nature of love, the divine Love.

‘I love you’, it plainly means that I want
something from you. I want you to fulfil these
expectations, I want you to agree to what I
am saying, I want you to please me and my
requests. But we won’t go into the fact that
we have no clue of what ‘I’ is and what ‘you’
is. But in this article we will not go into those
details for the time being.

And so, gradually as we grow in consciousness,
we become aware of our hidden demands and
expectations and wanting to control in the
name of love. We slowly wake up to the fact
Love: a misused word that we really have been misusing or using
the word love inappropriately. We have no
Love. A word, most innocent, most misused clue of what true love is, what divine love is.
and probably many of us won’t even want Yet that doesn’t stop us from the so-called
to use it owing to the fact that the more we falling in love. We fall in love, where there
mature in life, if we are sensitive enough, we is of course some amount of pure love, but if
realise that we have actually been misusing the rest is a mixture of expectations, demands,
the word. Most of the time when we say, agreements, transactions, etc. However, this is

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